Word: pulpiteering
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Hutchinson finds a similar tendency in church architecture. "Such congregations as have not pulled down their auditoriums (the word is used advisedly) of the Grover Cleveland period to make way for Gothic structures have often felt compelled at least to remodel the chancel so that lectern balances pulpit...
Sexton Fresnay, ragged, unschooled and in awe of the pulpit, agrees against his will to take up a few of the priestly duties. But he is pushed deeper & deeper into the role by the demands of his flock. He rejects the girl (Andrée Clement) who wants to marry him, moves into the rectory, reluctantly listens to confessions, fearfully goes through the motions of giving absolution...
...this kind of small-spirited aggressiveness that pushes people from the middle of the road to the loudest pulpit on the right. Werner D. Mueller...
...only 32, Sherrill was awarded Boston's richest Episcopal parish-squat, medieval-looking Trinity Church in Copley Square. From the pulpit once filled by the great Phillips Brooks, he began to crowd Trinity with Harvard undergraduates as well as Back Bay Brahmins. Sherrill's preaching, says Trinity's former senior warden, Alexander Whiteside, is not spellbinding, but "it's pretty damned good. He always gives you something to take home . . . He's the most sensible and sane man I have ever known. When the Russian crisis began to look serious last year, I said...
...ailment; in Los Angeles. At 52, Lutheran Minister Douglas began a fifth collection of essays which somehow wound up as a novel. Magnificent Obsession, a fictionalized tribute to good works, sold nearly 700,000 copies its first year. After a second bestseller (Forgive Us Our Trespasses), Douglas left the pulpit, concentrated on his "nationwide parish of novel readers," who deluged him with letters of thanks for the comfort they found in his eleven novels, including The Robe, The Big Fisherman. He was always frankly "more concerned with healing bruised spirits than winning the applause of critics"-who deplored his cliches...